Emma Orczy Quotes

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

Emma Orczy

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• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Confidence
  • Building
  • Just

• Luck marches with those who give their very best.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Best
  • Chance
  • Luck

• My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Brother
  • Baltimore
  • Mayor

• They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Want
  • Laugh
  • Reaction

• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Science
  • Said

• Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • Economic
  • Destruction

• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Kinds

• We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Watch
  • Street
  • Contact

• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Passion
  • Universe
  • Force

• All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Feel
  • Run
  • Quit

• I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Home
  • America
  • I Came

• Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Job
  • Struggle
  • Politics

• By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Lost

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.

  

  Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • Yourself
  • Wonderful
  • Forests

• Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Remember
  • Sometimes
  • Lessons

• We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

  

  LL Cool J
  • School
  • Why
  • Art

• She looked like a summer garden.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Garden
  • Look Like

• There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Sacrifice
  • Wonderful
  • Self